Commercial Lines
UK Hospitals Hit in Worldwide Ransomware Attack
Extortionist hackers who may be using leaked computer exploits from the U.S. National Security Agency infiltrated computers in dozens of countries in a fast-spreading attack that forced British ...
Experts Expect Simultaneous Cyber Attacks on Multiple Companies: AIG
Nine in 10 global cybersecurity and risk experts said they believed that cyber risk is systemic and that simultaneous attacks on multiple companies were likely in 2017, according to a study by ...
Berkshire’s biBERK Still ‘Very Small’ But Online Small Biz Customers Doubling
It has been decades since anyone thought of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc., or even its insurance operations, as "very, very small." But that's how a senior executive describes biBERK, a ...
Bermuda Insurers, Reinsurers Hammered by Ogden Rate Change, More Natural Catastrophe Losses
A big change in the Ogden rate and higher natural catastrophe losses are dampening a wide range of Bermuda-based insurer and reinsurer results in the 2017 first quarter, Standard & Poor's said in ...
The Latest Launches From Everest Insurance and Tokio Marine HCC
Everest Insurance is teaming with a cybersecurity firm to launch insurance coverage meant to help make private equity policyholders saver from cyberattacks. A division of Tokio Marine HCC unveiled a ...
Allianz, Praedicat Partner on Improving Catastrophe Liability Risk Predictions
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty SE (AGCS), the corporate insurance unit of Allianz SE, is working with Praedicat, the Los Angeles-based InsurTech analytics firm, to better predict key ...
Insurance Will Overtake Banks as Bigger Contributor to Swiss Economy
Switzerland's financial center is in the midst of a power shift. The Alpine country's less fashionable insurers, long overshadowed by glamorous private banks around Zurich's posh Paradeplatz and Lake ...
Former AIG CEO Greenberg Loses Court Appeal Over 2008 Bailout Ruling
A federal appeals court threw out a ruling that the U.S. government illegally bailed out insurer American International Group Inc during the 2008 financial crisis, in a defeat for former chief ...